Dozens of experts, academics and organizations have released an open letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to swiftly "defend Canada's digital sovereignty" and protect the country from the whims of the Trump administration.

The letter says Carney has argued Canada must become an energy superpower and get big projects built, but not spent enough time talking about the need to secure Canada's digital economy.

"Empires once built railways. Now they build algorithms," said Barry Appleton, a Toronto-based international trade lawyer and one of the letter's signatories.

"If Canada cannot govern the code that governs Canadians, then we are no longer a sovereign democracy. We will be tenants in Trump's regime."

The signatories ask Carney to stake out protections for social media, cloud sys

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